I have just setup on a Windows emby server, migrating from using a qnap server. I never had a single issue playing a 4K movie on the qnap. Now the movie will pause every 10 secs. Seems to be a bandwidth issue. Everything is connected via gigabit ethernet. I can transfer a file from the qnap to the pc with emby running at 112mb sec.
My media location is e.g.
\\192.168.0.160\Multimedia\Movies
Shared network folder
\\QNAP-TS653a\Multimedia\Movies
Any suggestions why
If you are running Emby Server on a linux, android or MacOS server, and the server is utilizing smb shares from a windows machine, then what I would suggest is mounting the smb shares to a local share using the tools within the OS, and then adding the local share path into Emby Server.